Palazzo Lezze - XVII century - Romantic apartment in Venice

Apartment large, comfortable and elegantly maintained

We ate at restaurants on same street, good food/value. Local market close by. We would buy breakfast food the evening before and have leisure mornings. I would recommend this location and manager.

Great place! Great hosts! Will definitely return here if we come back to Venice! Ciao!

We had a wonderful time in Venice, and this apartment was perfect! It is located near a main tourist street (Strada Nova), but far enough away to have a neighborhood (Cannaregio) feel. Lots of amenities are near by. The hosts are gracious and very helpful. It is a great choice.

We have stayed previously in Venezia and we really appreciated the neighborhood feel of this location. It was great to be able to walk to St. Marks and the other tourist locations and then "retreat" to a neighborhood for the evening. The convenience to the vaporetto was wonderful. We we able to take trips to multiple islands and it was a very easy airport transfer. The apartment is as described and my wife and I really enjoyed our stay.

Filippo is a wonderful host who graciously walked us through the apartment to explain everything as well as provide recommendations on restaurants and activities in the neighborhood.

We unfortunately did not have such a positive experience with this stay. Perhaps we had become spoiled by the other VRBO houses/hosts in Italy prior to this, but this turned out to be a not great experience for us.

The problems started when we missed our 12 noon check-in time due to a flat tire on the highway to Venice, which basically snow-balled into a 10 hour delay in getting to Venice. We were staying in contact with the owner the whole time, but it was obvious he was becoming more and more irritated with how this was impacting his plans and our inability to accurately estimate our arrival time, several times intimating that we were at fault for the delay which was clearly not the case.

When we finally did arrive, the host told us that we needed to pay upfront a 40 Euro “late check in fee” as well as the 58 Euro city tax (all the previous hosts had asked for the tax payment prior to check out, not up front). Of course, we were in a bind, as the owner well knew, and we had no option but to pay this as demanded. The VRBO property listing makes no mention of such a fee.

The property itself was clean and located in easy walking distance to all of Venice. However, sleep was near impossible, as temperatures were sweltering during our stay, and there is no a/c, so we had to rely on a ceiling fan and a small desktop fan, which were not adequate for the temperature. Also, due to the heat, the windows had to remain open. This unit is at street level, and hordes of young people doing their pub crawl flowed back and forth right past the open window, loud enough to sound as if they were walking right through the bedroom.

Directly under one of the window is apparently the garbage dump for the whole building, and as trash accumulated there over the weekend, the odor would waft through the unit. Other than that, the peeling paint in the bathroom and the broken front door knob, it was ok. Overall, we had a decidedly less-than-positive experience here, and would not recommend.